Master of Business Administration/Master of Arts in International Relations (MBA/INR)
Through a cooperative venture between the College of Business and the College of Arts and Sciences, students have the option of obtaining a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Arts in International Relations (INR). Both degrees can be earned in 54/57 credit hours (excluding prerequisite courses). Were the two degrees pursued separately, 66/69 credit hours would be necessary. The specifics of the program are as follows:
- Students must make separate application to each program and meet all admission requirements for each program. Students must apply to the second program while actively enrolled in the first program or they can apply to both programs simultaneously.
- The MBA degree requires 33 total hours that includes 9 hours of MBA core courses and 24 hours of functional core and focus courses. Students enrolled in the joint program may transfer a maximum of six hours of 600 or 700-level INR course work toward the 33 hours required for the MBA degree.
- Within the INR program, there is a 33 hour thesis option and a 36 hour non-thesis option. Both options have 18 hours of core classes, with the thesis option having nine hours of electives and six hours of thesis work. The non-thesis option has 19 hours of electives. For either option, the INR program will accept six hours of 700-level MBA course work as INR electives. Three of the six hours must be MBA 770-International Business Operations.
- Only courses with a grade of B or better may be accepted from one program to the other.
- MBA/INR students who do not have an undergraduate degree in business must take all of the MBA Functional Core courses. INR students must have completed the required prerequisites for the INR program in order to enroll in any 600 or 700-level INR courses.
- Case based MBA courses with INR students enrolled should include international cases in the course requirements in order to meet the needs of INR students.
- A MBA/INR student enrolled in INR 799 must include at least one College of Business faculty member on his/her thesis committee.